{"id":12430,"date":"2025-09-17T12:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T07:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12430"},"modified":"2025-09-17T13:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T08:03:21","slug":"about-bureau-of-indian-standards-bis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/about-bureau-of-indian-standards-bis\/","title":{"rendered":"Bureau of Indian Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bureau of Indian Standards<\/b> Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n

In recent years, the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has issued as many as 84 Quality Control Orders (QCOs) based on the recommendations of various ministries and departments.<\/span><\/p>\n

About Bureau of Indian Standards<\/b><\/h2>\n
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  • It is the <\/span>National Standard Body of India<\/b> established under <\/span>the BIS Act 2016.<\/b><\/li>\n
  • Objective: <\/b>It was established for the harmonious development of the activities of <\/span>standardization, marking<\/b>, and <\/span>quality certification of goods <\/b>and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • It is the successor of the <\/span>Indian Standards Institution (ISI),<\/b> which was created in 1947 to ensure quality control and competitive efficiency in the rapid industrialization era.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • BIS represents India in <\/span>International Organization for Standardization<\/b> (ISO) and <\/span>International Electrotechnical Commission<\/b> (IEC).<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Nodal Ministry:<\/b> It is functioning under the administrative control of <\/span>the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.<\/b><\/li>\n
  • Headquarter:<\/b> It is <\/span>headquartered in New Delhi<\/b> and maintains regional and branch offices throughout the country.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Functions of Bureau of Indian Standards<\/b><\/h2>\n
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    • BIS has been providing traceability and tangibility benefits to the national economy in a number of ways by<\/span>\n
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      • Providing safe, reliable quality goods;\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Minimizing health hazards to consumers;\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Promoting exports and imports substitute; control over proliferation of varieties etc. through standardization, certification, and testing.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
      • It operates <\/span>product certification schemes<\/b> through which it grants licenses to manufacturers covering practically every industrial discipline, from agriculture and textiles to electronics.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        BIS is the National Standards Body of India established under the BIS Act 2016. Read more about Bureau of Indian Standards, Objectives, Headquarter, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":63898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2748],"class_list":{"0":"post-12430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-bureau-of-indian-standards","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}